https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Xk7_Jk0TA
Two babies have been switched at birth during an attack in Haifa. Blood test of Rhesus will make them find out the truth.
One baby is Israeli, the other one is Palestinian: two identity crisis as a nation and as a religion.
What makes this movie great is the choice of good actors.
The story might sound like a cliché, but the filmmaker and screenwriter found out an exit to this drama.
They chose not to go into a huge drama, i mean, a drama with physical violence. They chose the side of the discover of the others, the curiosity of their reciprocal life..
The cliché that the Palestinian family is poor, yes, they are poor but they try to get a better life. Their "Jewish" son studies in France and wants to be a doctor.
The "Muslim" son is a dreamer, and wants to be a musician.
The identity crisis has multiple faces: the meeting with the rabbi who tells him that he is not a Jew but he can become one. He is 18 and had his bar mitzvah.
No meeting with the imam but the meeting with the hatred of his brother against the Jew. The forgetting of being a human being with who he shares 18 years of his life.
- Dans la Vie* by Philippe Faucon (*In Life)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eir_Gtedh6I
A movie against the clichés about Muslim and Jewish French communities which can't stand each other.
Don't forget that many Sefardi have a common past and souvenirs of old times in North African countries.
That doesn't mean that there are no issues.
In this movie, the actors are not professional. They are old ladies who will share their souvenirs of Oran, Algeria. A time where Arabs and Jews share their meals, celebrations.
Colonization and decolonization were a failure. We are all paying the price.
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| Yerushalayim, January 2015, ©emmarubinstein |
- The Art Dealer by François Margolin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMsm31Bso
The movie is about the theft of art collection which belonged to the French Jews during the war. The French government is responsible and kept collections in its museum. They don't make it easy to the Jewish family which would like to get their art collection back.
The actress sings two Yiddish songs. After the show, she sang one and a singer sang another one.
I post a short video of the song.
It happened that i have seen this movie because there is a revival of Yiddish culture in France. Can you believe it?
I can practice my Yibrew now.
I invited Sefardi women from my Beit Midrash.
None of them couldn't come, but i bumped into a lady who is one of the few who wears a sheitel.
She is half Sefardi, half Ashkenazi, but she looks like more Ashkenazi (Ukrainian roots).
She spent many years in the Satmar community of Anvers.
She is also the lady who gave me Mishloach Manot (Purim baskets).
I didn't know her very well, but we liked each other right away at the private show.
And i knew later why. She gave me a new enlightenment of my love of the Hasidic community: they are more welcome than secular Jews.
For those who think that Hasidim are living in a closed surrounding, that's not true if you come to them.
Will you dare to do it as i did? That's your business. :-)
She didn't understand that the audience, in majority, old people, were not so friendly: "We are all brothers", she said many times. She was the rebel finally.
She told me: "I am the only one with a wig." I think that i have seen another lady but i was not sure. She wanted to know where she was.
The Yiddish cine-club asked us for bringing food and beverages for a buffet that will be after the show.
The French love food, and the French Jews are terrible with food.
The Hasidic lady didn't dare to eat, she came with her sandwich, because there was a mix of kosher and non kosher food. I bought kosher food. I ate nothing because, like her, i wanted to socialize. She has made a crumble with fresh food and boudoirs biscuits: http://www.google.com/search?q=boudoir+biscuit&hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&oq=&gs_l=
She is not shy usually but she couldn't put it on the tables. She gave me a box of her crumble.
I saw her today at the Beit Midrash, and we talked with a Israeli woman during our break between two classes. She has a sense of humor a little sarcastic. She is going to Anvers for Pesach, and said to the lady, something like: "I am going with those who know how to do a seder correctly…" :-)
When you see her, you don't think that she has something cool in her behavior. Her wig is not really straight, and sometimes electrical.
In the next future, i will probably taste her recipes.
I took a new class about the Mishnah - how to live Rosh Hashanah all year? with a Lubaba Sefardi rabbi very relaxed. The shul had a black out of about 15 minutes. We couldn't write and read, thus he talked about Pesach. That was an interesting moment: when you close your eyes to listen to music, you do feel it better.
And i will take a new one with a brilliant man/ He is not a rabbi. He is psychologist, and director of the Wiesel Institute. The class will be about the Berechit: the creation, the Man, the World.
That will be for after Pesach.
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